A note from the editors:
Dear Reader,
Thank you for joining us in celebrating the Fall 2023 issue of Love & Squalor and all of the artists featured within it. After three years with its previous Editors-in-Chief, we inherited this magazine in June of this year. The past few months have been a transformative period as we welcomed seven new editors to the team, revamped our logo, and poured ourselves into the ongoing development of this magazine as a space that platforms fringe and hybrid work. As a publication, we want to challenge the typical conventions of the literary world: What is lowercase “l” literature? What would it look like if we followed our messiest of impulses? We called for diary excerpts, notebook scraps, and doodles drawn in the margins of old books. And in this issue, you’ll find exactly that. We hope to explore process, what it means to make for the sake of making, and how to find art in the everyday, for art is nothing if not a human impulse.
Thank you dearly to our editorial team, who showed up every Sunday (a day when nothing of substance ought to be done) and brought their critical, appreciative eyes to editorial discussion. Thank you to our contributors for trusting us with your work. Without your stunning, raw, and subversive art, this issue, and this magazine, would not exist. Thank you to our readers for joining us in these pages, online, and at our readings, and for uplifting the artists and work featured in this issue. We are deeply grateful for the people that support Love & Squalor and for all the ways you inspire us to grow as artists and as participants in a larger literary community.
With love,
Ruby & Jane